Chapter 411 Lao Xu
Is this considered good luck? Or are you unlucky?
Old Xu thought for a long time.
Survived in a situation of mortality... This should be considered luck, right?
But, at the cost, I turned into a trick...
When Lao Xu first joined the job and became an investigator, he considered this issue many times.
Choose one of death and ingenuity, which one to choose?
He has been thinking about this question since he first joined the company and has never come up with a clear answer.
Nevertheless, from an emotional perspective, he is more inclined to die.
He has met colleagues who have been infected by memes - they have either turned into terrifying monsters and were wiped out by investigators and hunters; or they have been brought back to the Institute of Wonderful Things and discovered The infection process is uncontrollable and is treated harmlessly; or it is directly turned into research materials for those white coats, and after suffering from various inhuman torture, it is then sliced or frozen...
Compared with these endings, death seems less terrible.
When the weird meme completely erases a person's self-awareness, the person can no longer be called a human, and naturally he will not enjoy any human rights.
However, what puzzled Lao Xu was... Why did he become a trick, but he still retained his self-consciousness that belongs to humans?
Is it because I have not completely become accused of being a "infected person" yet?
Old Xu sat up and looked at his "new body".
His current body is like Frankenstein's Frankenstein's, his whole body is made of stitched carcasses, either carbonized, swollen, or rotten. In some parts, some "metal parts" can also be seen. , these parts seemed to be from the wreckage of the amphibious motorcycle, and Lao Xu could even feel that there seemed to be gears choking and rotating in his body.
The shape of this body is very different from that of humans, so it is difficult for Lao Xu to describe what he looks like now - among the tricks he has seen with his own eyes, it is even more strange than what he is now I'm afraid it's no more than two-handed.
What made Lao Xu most collapse was that he found that in addition to his original body and the wreckage of the motorcycle... there was also Wang Zheng.
Wang Zheng's head was built into this new body like a red brick of flesh and blood. His face was facing the outside, his eyes were staring at the ground without any trace, and there were still remaining in his nose and mouth. The blood clots were already clumping, and a sharp and narrow metal fragment penetrated through one side of his head, and the other end of the fragment was pinned on Lao Xu's skin like a pin. "Infected? No, I can't be an infected person." Old Xu thought to himself.
Although the infected person was infected with the meme of the trick, no matter what, before he was completely tricky, he was a human, a living human.
And I... the moment those polymeric explosives were detonated, I was already dead.
Old Xu knew very well that he had resurrected himself from the dead and had nothing to do with the word human.
It is not so much that these memes resurrected themselves, but rather that they used these "materials" to create a brand new container, and then put Lao Xu's consciousness and memory into the container.
"Am I a weird thing or a human?" Old Xu fell into deep thought.
After thinking for about ten minutes, Lao Xu took a deep breath - he suddenly realized that he had lost the human respiratory organ. After he subconsciously gave the body a "deep breath" and the skin exposed to the air was exposed to the air He and the flesh began to desperately draw oxygen from the outside world. Not only oxygen, but even the flowing rainwater was sucked into the body by Lao Xu.
Old Xu's body suddenly swelled like a balloon. The next second, the air and rainwater that were sucked into the body shot out from the gaps in the body, and its strength was no less than that of that kind. Heavy duty industrial waterjet for cutting stone.
"Is this...my attack method?" Old Xu smiled like a self-deprecatingly, but he found that he could not laugh at all.
He seemed to have lost all his facial features except his eyes.
He could hear the crackling sound of rain, but the sound was not "heard" by his ears, but the vibration felt by his body was transformed into a sound signal in a special way, in his head It appears inside.
In contrast, Wang Zheng's head embedded in Lao Xu's body should be preserved and more perfect.
Lao Xu has participated in several confidential experiments. The contents of these experiments are all related to the infectious degeneration of the infected person - those infectious who have lost control of the infection process and are about to be completely degenerated, and Not all will be "harmlessly treated". A considerable number of them will be rushed to a secret experimental base in Tianshu Tower to allow researchers to observe the process of human beings' complete ingenuity and before and after. Changes in various body parameters.
As a security officer, Lao Xu is not qualified to read the archives of these experiments, but through the dialogue between the researchers, he can still roughly understand the changes in the state before and after the complete miracle of human beings.
The vast majority of infected people, after the infection process breaks through the risk threshold, their thinking and cognition will begin to distort...Their reason is often on the verge of collapse, and their words and actions will become unpredictable.
These infected people often see some hallucinations that only appear in their minds, and they often believe in them. Not only that, in the eyes of some infected people, normal humans will become distorted and terrifying monsters, and their reason is constantly eroded, which leads to their aggressive behaviors against normal people around them... It's a massacre.
After being completely insulted, Lao Xu has never heard of the infected person who can still maintain the original human self-consciousness.
Even though some of the human-shaped creatures still have the ability to think, their way of thinking is already very different from that of humans, and the main factor affecting this way of thinking is their memory "before they live".
Or, obsession.
After the infected people are completely degenerate, their obsessions during their lifetime will be amplified countless times... Some people have various desires, while some people have obsessions that are not fulfilled in life. Unfortunately, some people are dominated by hatred... Lao Xu once saw a female infected person who, after being completely transformed, turned into an extremely huge uterus - from among the researchers The conversation can be seen that the female infected person had a miscarriage due to a meme infection, and he never got pregnant again after that.
The reason is also very simple. After becoming an infected person, her husband chose to divorce... Although her appearance does not look much different from that of humans when the infection process is still stable, for ordinary people, It is difficult to sleep with an infected person who may become a trick when he wakes up the next day.
This infected person does not have any special abilities and belongs to the relatively special type of "hidden infected person". The so-called "hidden infection" means that the person has been infected with a weird meme, but has not obtained any abilities or characteristics brought by the meme... Of course, it cannot be ruled out that this person has indeed obtained some ability. But no one, including herself, found out what this ability was.
The hidden infected people are unfortunate, but they are also lucky - they fail to gain any ability beyond ordinary people at the cost of infection, but from another perspective, the hidden infected people's The infection process is also much more stable than those infected with powerful abilities.
People with hidden infections can often maintain a stable state for decades. In fact, their "life expectancy" is not much different from that of normal humans.
But the female infected person fell into complete insult on her 30th birthday... and the reason for the insult was that she chose to commit suicide.
She cut her veins with the pull ring of a can in the bathtub filled with water. Although the monitoring system discovered an abnormality immediately, the ambulance staff sent her to rescue before the blood loss reached the deadly level. But researchers found that the moment she cut her vein, her infection process began to soar sharply, and in a blink of an eye, she broke through the safety threshold.
When the infected person as the host gives up his will to survive, the memes in his body will naturally try their best to save the host's life from the instinct of "survival" - and their method is to Completely "transform" the host from an infected person into a trick.
This sentence was said by a very young intern. After she finished speaking, she was criticized by her predecessors - "Memes are not microorganisms, nor are they cells, they There is no survival instinct. It is mostly because the suicide of the infected person triggers a special mechanism or breaks a certain balance in the body, which will lead to the out of control of the infection process."
But Lao Xu still The intern wrote down the words.
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His intuition told him that the intern was right...those memes were afraid of their host's death, which turned the host into a trick.
The female infected person had a very calm process of inspiration. Her body curled up inside the container, and her limbs and torso gradually began to dissolve, and eventually turned into a large group of flesh and blood tissue. Immediately afterwards, the flesh and blood tissue began to differentiate and develop. It frantically absorbed the nutrients provided by researchers, and the volume also expanded day after day...
Until one day, a human uterus was The very close independent organ appeared in the laboratory. In this uterus, a naturally incomplete human fetus is gradually taking shape. Through the nearly transparent envelope on the surface of the giant uterus, you can see more than a dozen "umbilical cords" like "umbilical cords" "The same thing connects the fetus to the inner wall of the giant uterus.
As for the final fate of this trick, Lao Xu didn't know - when the incomplete fetus inside the trick developed to the 19th day, another research team with higher level took over this Observe the project and replace all security personnel with internal personnel of Tianshu Tower.
Old Xu's security task was naturally completed.
"It is impossible for humans to become tricks to maintain a complete and conscious self-awareness... But I am extremely awake now, even more sober than before I detonated the explosives." Old Xu murmured to himself, " Not only that, my memory is also very complete... and very independent."
After discovering that he had merged with part of Wang Zheng's body, Lao Xu thought that there would be another personality in his head or Other memory clips, but facts have proved that Wang Zheng only contributed his body parts to Lao Xu, and did not participate together at the thinking level.
"Obstinence... all humans after the insults should have obsession..." Old Xu became excited as if he had grasped some key point, but soon, this excitement was The love faded.
Because he found that he didn't seem to have any strong obsession.
Old Xu became a formal investigator when he was twenty-second. He worked for the Chunming City Abnormal Investigation Bureau for a full twenty-five years, and is already forty-seven years old this year... Due to the special nature of his work , He is not married, nor has children. In addition to his left and right hands, he only has the young girls who "met by chance" in the bar.
Investigators need to sign many confidentiality agreements, but their identities are not secrets. Those girls who pursue excitement are happy to experience the feeling of spring night with people like Lao Xu - Lao Xu only needs to tell some at the table. The "exploration story" that is mixed with real and fake will automatically post it with a group of girls who worship the strong and adventurers, not to mention among peers in their forties, whether it is temperament, figure or physical fitness, Lao Xu It belongs to the most outstanding group.
Lao Xu doesn't have much pursuit of his life. The reason why he became an investigator is just because this job gives a lot of money and has good benefits.
He has a small house in Chunming City, and a car with a good performance and grade. He likes to drink but never drink heavily and never smokes. In addition to being in the bar in his spare time There are no bad hobbies outside.
His parents passed away very early, and relatives and friends rarely interacted with each other... Apart from work, Lao Xu didn't like to have personal relationships with others, and he had never added anything to spend the night with him. girls' WeChat.
College colleagues all say that Lao Xu lives very freely, but only Lao Xu feels that as an investigator, this is the most correct attitude towards life.
"Do I really have obsession?"
Old Xu thought about it and seemed that his only obsession was "living".
When facing death several times, it was this thought that made him persevere until the end... Although Lao Xu attributed this to luck, if he chose to give up in a desperate situation, then his The name has probably been printed on the list of deaths. "Is it the obsession with survival... that makes me look like this?" Old Xu was suddenly a little amused.
"The obsession with survival has turned me into a resurrection trick? And the obsession with human self has allowed me to retain my complete self-awareness and memory?"
Old Xu raised his head and glanced at Chimera No. 17, which was close to him.
"Or, all this is thanks to it?"
(The end of this chapter)